Hasta La Ideas

Cape Town’s excellent Design Indaba conference returns at the end of February, bringing a selection of cutting edge speakers from across the fields of product design, graphics, architecture and more to South Africa’s sunny shores.

This year’s conference takes place from February 29 until March 2, and will then be followed by the Design Indaba Expo, presenting the very best of South African product design, from March 2-4.

The conference always promises to be one of the highlights on the design circuit. This year the organisers are being coy about their full speaker line-up, only releasing names on a week-by-week basis. Those confirmed so far include Dutch furniture designer Piet Hein Eek; London-based Clive van Heerden, director of Design-Led Innovation at Philips Design; US designer and social activist John Bielenberg; German scent expert Sissel Tolaas; and interactive artists/designers United Visual Artists, from the UK. More speakers will be announced over the coming weeks.

For more info on this year’s event, visit designindaba.com.

CR in Print

If you only read CR online, you’re missing out. From the meaning of beans to the power of love, the February issue of Creative Review features our 20 favourite slogans of all time and the stories behind them.

What makes a great slogan? We investigate the enduring power of these clever little phrases in our special slogans issue, dedicated to our choices for the top 20 slogans.

If you would like to buy this issue and are based in the UK,you can search for your nearest stockist here. Based outside the UK? Simply call +44(0)207 292 3703 to find your nearest stockist. Better yet, subscribe to CR for a year here and save yourself almost 30% on the printed magazine.